22/11/2025
🎬 Spellbound 2: Echoes of the Mind (2026)
👉 Ingrid Bergman (AI-restored performance), Gregory Peck (AI-restored performance), Rebecca Ferguson, Cillian Murphy, Michael Chekhov (archive), Anya Taylor-Joy (cameo)
The mind forgets — but the truth always returns. Spellbound 2: Echoes of the Mind resurrects the psychological tension and dreamlike surrealism of Hitchcock’s classic, crafting a haunting new mystery that bridges past and present through memory, identity, and obsession.
Set decades after the original case, the story follows Dr. Elena Korberg (Rebecca Ferguson), a brilliant psychoanalyst who discovers a sealed archive from the famed Green Manors asylum. Inside is a set of coded journals and an incomplete psychological profile from Dr. Constance Petersen (Ingrid Bergman) — restored through modern AI reconstruction — detailing a patient once accused of murder but later exonerated through dream analysis.
But the final pages are missing. And someone doesn’t want them found.
When Elena begins to investigate, she crosses paths with Jonathan Ballard (Cillian Murphy), a reclusive neurology researcher whose own past contains a mysterious gap — an eight-month period erased from his memory, just like Peck’s character decades earlier. As Elena probes deeper, she uncovers chilling similarities between Ballard’s fragmented dreams and the surreal, symbolic nightmares recorded by Constance.
Soon, Elena and Ballard are drawn into a labyrinth of shifting identities, hypnotic visions, and a conspiracy stretching back to the asylum’s most controversial experiments. Whispers from the past imply a horrifying possibility: the original amnesia case may not have been isolated… and someone has been manipulating minds for generations.
With threats closing in, Elena turns to Constance’s recorded notes — allowing Bergman’s recreated voice and presence to guide her — uncovering forgotten symbols, hidden motives, and the terrifying truth behind a series of unsolved murders linked by one pattern: memory rewritten like pages torn from a diary.
As Elena pieces together the final, missing chapter, she confronts a revelation that blurs the line between psychological trauma, deliberate manipulation, and a groundbreaking — but monstrous — scientific discovery.
The climax unfolds in a visually stunning dream sequence inspired by Salvador Dalí’s original designs, reimagined through modern surrealism. Shadows stretch, eyes multiply, and doors lead to memories that never were — until Elena uncovers the truth that both Constance and Ballard feared most.
Elegant, atmospheric, and psychologically gripping, Spellbound 2: Echoes of the Mind honors Hitchcock’s legacy while crafting a sophisticated thriller for a new era — one where memory itself can be the perfect crime.
